This is a reasonable question. I hope you are able to find an answer but I don’t have one for you. I’d start by reading the “you’re wrong about...” pair of posts covering the First Amendment [1] and Section 230 [2] as they are good primers, even if you aren’t “wrong”. I’d also read the text of Section 230 itself [3] and then read up on safe harbor in general [4]. That should get you going in the right direction.
and fosta / sesta cut up some pieces of that for some sites / situations, which could create some of the issues that op was suggesting for some parts of the internet and not others (yet).
Of course there has been talk on both sides of the aisles (especially the past 6 months or so) to remove 230 totally or update it so that moderating speech makes you lose 230 protections - the argument that 'we don't write the words our users do so we aren't responsible" - the 'dumb pipe' defense, starts to erode when you censor some things you don't like - especially if you censor them before they are posted - from what I understand.
Of course some portals have already destroyed thier dumb pipe defense all on their own, aka cloudflare -
This leads to interesting situations where I believe most users do not know that their assumed private speech is being monitored, censored, judged, reported, deplatformed etc..
IANAL, dr., etc - anyhow I think it's a fluid situation currently.
Of course there has been talk on both sides of the aisles (especially the past 6 months or so) to remove 230 totally or update it so that moderating speech makes you lose 230 protections - the argument that 'we don't write the words our users do so we aren't responsible" - the 'dumb pipe' defense, starts to erode when you censor some things you don't like - especially if you censor them before they are posted - from what I understand.
Of course some portals have already destroyed thier dumb pipe defense all on their own, aka cloudflare -
This leads to interesting situations where I believe most users do not know that their assumed private speech is being monitored, censored, judged, reported, deplatformed etc..
IANAL, dr., etc - anyhow I think it's a fluid situation currently.